The countdown has begun. I fly out of Norfolk on Saturday afternoon, out of Los Angeles later that evening, spending the 4th of July (Independence Day) somewhere above the Pacific Ocean … well, only about 6 hours of it. I touch down in Sydney by 10 am Monday after a stop in Auckland. And once…

We had a much smaller snowstorm in January, but the second major snowstorm this season came Thursday evening, 4 February 2010. And again the landscape was shrouded in white. I had not yet shoveled the walk when I took this photograph. By the time it was over, there was under 2 feet on the ground.…

It was the second storm of December 2009 that made us notice. 25 inches in my yard. That weekend the town was paralyzed … well, most of the east coast was as well. The lowest hinges on the church’s front doors are about a foot from the ground. But the drifts along the rest of the…

Instinctively we trust what the label boldly proclaims … a product prepared, packaged and marketed by strangers we have never met and will never know. What will it take for us to let go of fear and begin to trust the One who has walked with us all our lives?